Por Yovi-Girl @ 22:46 | Bruce Springsteen
CD1
Mary, Queen of Arkansas
Mary Queen of Arkansas,
it's not too early for dreamin'
The sky is grown with cloud seed sown
and a bastard's love can be redeeming
Mary, my queen, your soft hulk is reviving
No, you're not too late to desecrate,
the servants are just rising
Well I'm just a lonely acrobat,
the live wire is my trade
I've been a shine boy for your acid brat
and a wharf rat of your state
Mary, my queen, your blows for freedom are missing
You're not man enough for me to hate
or woman enough for kissing
The big top is for dreamers,
we can take the circus all the way to the border
And the gallows wait for martyrs
whose papers are in order
But I was not born to live to die
and you were not born for queenin'
It's not too late to infiltrate,
the servants are just leavin'
Mary queen of Arkansas,
your white skin is deceivin'
You wake and wait to lie in bait
and you almost got me believin'
But on your bed Mary
I can see the shadow of a noose
I don't understand how you can hold me so tight
and love me so damn loose
But I know a place where we can go Mary
Where I can get a good job
and start all over again clean
I got contacts deep in Mexico
where the servants have been seen
It's hard to be a Saint in the City
I had skin like leather
and the diamond-hard look of a cobra
I was born blue and weathered
but I burst just like a supernova
I could walk like Brando right into the sun
Then dance just like a Casanova
With my blackjack and jacket and hair slicked sweet
Silver star studs on my duds
like a Harley in heat
When I strut down the street
I could hear its heartbeat
The sisters fell back and said
"Don't that man look pretty"
The cripple on the corner cried out
"Nickels for your pity"
Them gasoline boys downtown sure talk gritty
It's so hard to be a saint in the city
I was the king of the alley, mama,
I could talk some trash
I was the prince of the paupers
crowned downtown at the beggar's bash
I was the pimp's main prophet
I kept everything cool
Just a backstreet gambler
with the luck to lose
And when the heat came down
it was left on the ground
The devil appeared like Jesus
through the steam in the street
Showin' me a hand I knew
even the cops couldn't beat
I felt his hot breath on my neck
as I dove into the heat
It's so hard to be a saint
when you're just a boy out on the street
And the sages of the subway
sit just like the living dead
As the tracks clack out the rhythm
their eyes fixed straight ahead
They ride the line of balance
and hold on by just a thread
But it's too hot in these tunnels
you can get hit up by the heat
You get up to get out at your next stop
but they push you back down in your seat
Your heart starts beatin' faster
as you struggle to your feet
Then you're outa that hole and back up on the street
And them South Side sisters sure look pretty
The cripple on the corner cries out
"Nickels for your pity"
And them downtown boys sure talk gritty
It's so hard to be a saint in the city
Grovin' Up
I stood stone-like at midnight
suspended in my masquerade
I combed my hair till it was just right
and commanded the night brigade
I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and I walked on a crooked crutch
I strolled all alone through a fallout zone
and came out with my soul untouched
I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd
but when they said "Sit down" I stood up
Ooh-ooh growin’ up
The flag of piracy flew from my mast
my sails were set wing to wing
I had a jukebox graduate for first mate
she couldn’t sail but she sure could sing
I pushed B-52 and bombed `em with the blues
with my gear set stubborn on standing
I broke all the rules strafed my old high school
never once gave thought to landing
I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd
but when they said "Come down" I threw up
Ooh-ooh growin’ up
I took month-long vacations in the stratosphere
and you know it’s really hard to hold your breath
I swear I lost everything I ever loved or feared
I was the cosmic kid in full custome dress
Well my feet they finally took root in the earth
but I got me a nice little place in the stars
I swear I found the key to the universe
in the engine of an old parked car
I hid in the mother breast of the crowd but
when they said “Pull down” I pulled up
Ooh-ooh growin’ up
Ooh-ooh growin’ up
Does this Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
Hey bus driver keep the change,
bless your children, give them names,
don't trust men who walk with canes
drink this and you'll grow wings on your feet
Broadway Mary, Joan Fontaine,
advertiser on a downtown train
Christmas crier bustin' cane,
he's in love again.
Where dock worker's dreams
mix with panther's schemes
to someday own the rodeo
Tainted women in Vistavision perform for
out-of-state kids at the late show
Wizard imps and sweat sock pimps,
interstellar mongrel nymphs
Rex said that lady left him limp.
Love's like that (sure it is).
Queen of diamonds, ace of spades,
newly discovered lovers of the everglades
They take out a full page ad in the
trades to announce their arrival
And Mary Lou she found out how to cope,
she rides to heaven on a gyroscope
The Daily News asks her for the dope
She says "Man, the dope's that there's still hope"
Senorita, Spanish rose,
wipes her eyes and blows her nose
Uptown in Harlem she throw a rose to some
lucky, young matador
Bishop Dance
Bishop danced with a thumbscrew woman. Did a double-quick back flip and slid across the floor
The Catholic traffic flowed freely 'cross the river
And fiddlestick fiddled quick
out the front door
Oh baby dumpling, mama's in the back tree
If the bow breaks mama might fall
Little sad and only, baby don't be lonely
Mama knows 'rithmatic, knows how to take a fall
Mama knows 'rithmatic, knows how to take a fall
CHORUS
And the kids are crying: "Flapjacks, make'em fat, early in the mornin'. Little Jack, grab your hat,
hear the breakfast call
Muskrat, bat a cat, kick him in the fireplace
There's someone in the kitchen
blowing "Dinah" on their horn
There's someone in the kitchen
blowing "Dinah" like they're born
Well maverick daddy got one-eyed bridge
She glides like a monkey-mule kicking
on the back slide
Over hill, over hill, daddy don't you spill now
Papa got a switch stick, he's pumping little Bill
Papa got a switch stick, he's pumping little Bill
And Billy, he's crying "Tomahawk, tomahawk, daddy better duck now"
The Mohawks, the Mohawks, they're still
out there in the woods
Monatuk, Ocanuk, runnin' through my dreams now
With fire on their fingertips and indian screams
With fire on their fingertips and feathers
made of moonbeams
Well early in the morning the cannoneer cried
"I seen the sailor's warning in the western sky"
Well mountain man, if you can,
cut me down a fir tree
Branches full of candlesticks for baby and me
And my darling cried, she said "Honey,
the weathervane lately it's been pointing
the way to heaven"
Scatterbrains, scatterbrains, watch out where you fall
Champagne, champagne, a round
for all the old choir boys
They're busting off the altar
chasing Dinah through the hall
They're bustin' off the altar
chasing Dinah through the hall
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Santa Ana
From the tin rooftop the little boy did watch
The procession down through town
Through the museum where Daniel
whupped the Devil
With them boys from the underground
Where the Giants of Science fight for tight
control over the wildlands of New Mexico
Sam Houston's ghost's in Texas
fighting for his soul
And the townsfolk rest uneasy
beneath the guns of Kid Cole
And the kid says: "Hey, where's Santa Ana
He who could romance
the dumb into talking
Take a chance with me tonight, my contessa
If it don't work out I ain't lame, I can walk
Now some folks think cancer's
taken to the streets of this town
But Sandy eats her candy
and then lays her money down
Them cats are in from the canyons
to strut their stuff in town
But there's only secret sinners here
Lord, there's only secret thieves
Only a fool would try to save
What the desert chose to leave
And hey there señorita,
With your playboys in their Spanish bandanas
French cream won't soften those boots, baby
French kisses will not break your heart
Oh painted night set free with light
Glows outside the Rainbow Saloon
Matching braces with a Spanish lady
'Neath a graduation moon
No more colleges, no more coronations
Some punk's idea of a teenage nation
Has forced Santa Ana to change his station
From soldier to cartoon
And the Giants of Science spend
their days and nights. Not with wives,
not with lovers, but searchin' for the lights
They spotted in the desert
on their helicopter flights
Just to be lost in the dust and the night
Hey my Contessa, in your juke joint rags
you always bring candy for the kids
Come waltz with me tonight señorita
'Cause only fools are alone on a night like this
Seaside Bar Song
Well Billy bought a Chevy '40 coupe deluxe
Chrome wheels, stick shift,
give her gas, pop the clutch
Girls on the corner like a diamond they shine
Someday Billy I'm gonna make 'em all mine
Hey girl, you wanna ride in Daddy's Cadillac?
'Cause I love the way your long hair
falls down your back
Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley's at the Seaside Bar
We'll run barefoot in the sand, listen to his guitar
You say your mama's gonna meet you
when the morning comes
And your papa's gonna beat you 'cause he knows you're out on the run
I'm gonna live a life of love
and tonight you're the one
The highway is alive tonight
so baby do not be frightened
There's something about a pretty girl
on a sweet summer night
that gets this boy excited
The radio man finally understands
and plays you something you can move to
You lay back, cut loose your drive power
Your girl leans over and says,
"Daddy, can you turn that radio up any louder?"
The juke joint's hummin', everybody came down
Little Willie and his Soul Brooms
laying all this stuff now
Well don't let that daylight steal your soul
Get in your wheels and roll, roll, roll,
roll, roll, roll, roll
Oh that's all right now
Oh go on, go on, go on. Oh mama's gonna
meet you when the morning comes
And your daddy's gonna beat you 'cause he knows you're out on the run
But I don't care, I wanna live a life
of love while the night's still young
Zero & Blind Terry
The Skulls met the Pythons
Down at the First Street station
Alliances have been made in alleyways
All across the nation
These boys live off the milk of a silver jet
And the love of sweet young women
Now the Pythons are down from old Englishtown
And they're looking to do some livin'
Well the leader of the Pythons
Is a kid they just call Zero
Now Terry's pop says these kids
are some kind of monsters. But Terry says
"No, pop, they're just plain heroes"
Zero and Terry they found a love
that burnes like wildfire
Now Terry's daddy understood
that this Zero was no good
A child, a thief and a liar
Well from out of the darkness that breaks the dawn
Zero rode like twilight
He said "Tonight's the night, Blind Terry, come on"
Terry come on, tonight is the night
Pack your bags, baby
And together they ran like reindeers
through the street. Like tomorrow the earth
was gonna catch on fire
Now Terry's dad hired some troopers
to kill Zero and bring Terry back home
They crawled up in the night like firelight
Now snow-white troopers
from the council of crime rode
silver foxes through Terry's field
Oh they met the Pythons down on
Route 9 but they refused to yield
The Pythons fought with buzz guns
And the troopers with swords like light
And Zero and Terry they ran away
And the gang fought all through the night
Well now some folks say Zero and Terry got away
Other said they were caught and brought back
But still young pilgrims to this day
Go to that spot way down by the railroad track
Where the Troopers met the Pythons
Old timers cry on a hot August night
If you look hard enough, if you try
You'll catch Zero and Terry and all the Pythons
Oh just hiking them streets of the sky
Just walkin', hiking the streets of the sky
Just hiking the streets of the sky
Hey Zero
Linda let me be the One
The midnight boys are outside
Scraping tears up off the street
Standin' guard beneath the window
Where only Linda sleeps
The leader is a kid named Eddie
Walkin' like an angel in defeat
He trashes her old man's car,
slashes Linda's name in the street
And calls out
CHORUS
Linda will you let me be the one
Linda will you let me be the one
In a room full of contenders
Eddy spars 'til he drops to his bed and surrenders Draped in the scarves
He stole from Linda's bedroom
The night he layed at her feet
When the midnight boys were stranded
Down on Cason Street
CHORUS
In the basement of St Mary's
Eddy hides from the rain
In with the stolen sisters
'til the streets are dry again
Talkin' fast cars and spare parts
Empty homes and hearts
Distant worlds with strange girls
And kneeling with Linda in the dark
CHORUS
Thundercrack
Her brains they rattle and her bones they shake
Whoah, she's an angel from the Innerlake
Thundercrack, baby's back
This time she'll tell me how she really feels
Bring me down to her lightning shack
You can watch my partner reelin'
CHORUS
She moves up, she moves back
Out on the floor there just is no one cleaner
She does this thing she calls the "Jump back Jack"
She's got the heart of a ballerina
She's straight from the Bronx
Hung off the line
She slips, she slides, she slops,
she bops, she bumps, she grinds
Even them dance hall hacks
From the west side of the tracks
Move in close to catch her timin'
CHORUS
She ain't no little girl, she ain't got no curls
Her hair ain't brown, and her eyes ain't either
Round and round and round and round
My heart's wood, she's a carpenter
She's an angel in the night, what she does is alright
Dance with me, partner, dance with me, partner
Dance with me, partner, 'til the dawn
Thundercrack, baby's back
This time she'll tell me how she really feels
Bring me down to her lightning shack
You can watch my partner reelin'
CHORUS
She ain't no little girl, she ain't got no curls
Her hair ain't brown, and her eyes ain't either
Round and round and round and round
My heart's wood, she's a carpenter
She's an angel in the night, what she does is alright
Dance with me, partner, dance with me, partner
Dance with me, partner, all night
Rendezvous
I had a dream our love would last forever
I had a dream tonight my dream comes true
And if you'll hold me tight
We'll be riders, girl, on the night
Ooh, I want a rendezvous
Haven't I told you, girl, how much I like you
I got a feeling that you like me too
well if you hold me tight
We'll be riders, girl, on the night
Ooh, I want a rendezvous
You deserve so much more than this, girl
Well I'm riding on the power
and livin' on the promise in your last kiss
Because I had a dream our love would last forever
I had a dream tonight my dream comes true
And if you'll hold me tight
We'll be riders, girl, on the night
Ooh, ooh, rendezvous
I want a rendezvous
I want a rendezvous
Give the Girl a Kiss
I ain't lookin' for just excitement
Baby that's just a fact
If you want to get to her heart
You better let her know just where you're at
CHORUS
It ain't written in the sky above
No fortune-teller told me this
You gotta tell her that you love her
Tell her that you need her
And give the girl a great big kiss
Give the girl a great big kiss
Now if you're such a fool you think
It don't matter, baby, what you say
Maybe you better tell her how you're feelin'
It ain't gonna happen any other way
CHORUS
Now baby all I wanna do
Is darlin' make sweet love to you
Now I don't know what the meanin' is
Why you wanna hide the things you feel and say
But baby it's just a natural fact
Love was never meant to be that way
CHORUS
Now baby all I wanna do
Is darlin' make sweet love to you
Iceman
Sleepy town ain't got the guts to budge
Baby, this emptiness has already been judged
I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got
You're a strange part of me,
you're a preacher's girl
And I don't want no piece of this mechanical world
Got my arms open wide and my blood is running hot
We'll take the midnight road right to the
devil's door. And even the white angels
of Eden with their flamin' swords
Won't be able to stop us from hitting
town in this dirty old Ford
Well it don't take no nerve
when you got nothing to guard
I got tombstones in my eyes and I'm running real hard
My baby was a lover
and the world just blew her away
Once they tried to steal my heart,
beat it right outta my head
But baby they didn't know that I was born dead
I am the iceman, fighting for the right
to live. I say better than the glory roads
of heaven better off riding
Hellbound in the dirt,
better than the bright lines of the freeway
Better than the shadows of your daddy's church
Better than the waiting, baby better off is the search
Bring on the Night
I lie in bed but baby
I can't sleep no matter how hard I try
There's something bad, baby, wrong with me whenever I close my eyes
The dreams of Mary keep me awake
with every little curve in place
When I walk home in the daybreak
I pray come back home, baby, won't you give me
Darlin' bring on the night, oh yeah darlin',
bring on the night
Oh now darlin', bring on the night
I walk the street, I'm lookin' for romance
I end up stumblin' in some stupid half-trance
As I watch the lovers mix with circumstance
We watch the disco dancers dance
I look for connection in some new eyes
But for protection they're tranquilized
Forbidding close inspection
of who's tellin' who
Forbidding close inspection
of who's tellin' who lies
Bring on the night, oh yeah darlin', bring on the night
Oh now darlin', bring on the night
Is it as simple as it seems
I don't know what I'm doin' here,
is it as simple as it seems.
Is it as simple as I fear, well if I'm right...
I look for connection in some new eyes
But for protection they're tranquilized
Forbidding close inspection
of who's tellin' who
Forbidding close inspection
of who's tellin' who
Baby of who's tellin' who lies
Bring on the night, oh yeah darlin', bring on the night
Oh now darlin', bring on the night,
oh now darlin', bring on the night
Come on darlin', bring on the night
Oh now darlin' bring on the night
So Young & in Love
There's flying angels on your fire escape
They lie to your mama for you,
try to keep you safe
You're with them fire alley virgins
on a midnight vamp
Lost your heart on Main Street
to a beautiful tramp
You lost your mind
She's sent from above
You're so young and in love
So young and in love
So young and in love
So young and in love
So young and in love
Rat traps filles with soul crusaders
They're soppin' 'n' boppin' 'n' moppin'
with Little Melvin and the Invaders
Missy's on the dance floor doin' her stuff
Leroy's dancin' doin' the continental strut
Sent from above
So young and in love
So young and in love
So young and in love
So young and in love
Everybody's reelin'
when the band hits the ceilin'
Don't you know you wanna go
The kids start rockin'
when the boys start knockin'
And everybody wants to go
Let's go!
Joint's shut down but you don't wanna go home
You're in the shady side of town
and you're all alone
Papa's chewin' your ear off 'bout
hangin' out with trash
So fine, sent from above
So young and in love
So young and in love
So young and in love
So young and in love
Hearts of Stone
You stare in the mirror at the lines in your face
And you try to see, girl
The way things were when we were at your place
In the days it was just you and me, girl
And you cry because things ain't like before
Well don't you know they can't be that way anymore
But don't worry baby
CHORUS
I can't talk now, I'm not alone
So put your ear close to the phone
'Cause this is the last dance. This is the
last chance for hearts of stone
If there was something, baby, that I could do
Something that would last, honey, I would
But we all know, girl, especially you do
How you can't return to your past, no
So girl close your eyes and I'll be there
Hold me once more and we can go anywhere
Ah, we could
CHORUS
And you cry because things ain't like before
Well don't you know they can't be like that anymore
Well I know it, baby
Dont Look Back
Cold rain running down the front of my shirt
I'm flat on my back wheels in the dirt
Angel makes her face up out on Baker Street
She's straddling the shifter
in my front seat
There's nothing to lose, it's a heartbreak
The deck's stacked, so put your
foot to the floor and darling don't look back
We're making night tracks through the
blazing rain. Blowin' pistons,
workin' the fast lane. Red line burnin',
pocket'sfull of cash
Angel writes her name in lipstick
on my dash. There's nothing to lose
It's a bad break but baby we're backed
Tonight we'll blow off the doors
and honey we won't look back
We held it in our hearts in the pourin' rain
We made it through the heart of a hurricane
We tore it apart and put it together again
Well angel, won't you believe in love for me
C'mon and meet me tonight, darling, out in the
street. We'll move with the city in the dark
You got to walk, it talk, it in your heart
There's nothin' to lose it's a heartache
The deck's stacked
So put your foot to the floor, darling
Tonight we'll blow off the doors, baby
We're gonna even the score
And honey we won't look back
CD2
Restless Nights
Once we ran and lived as one
In another world, my little one
Where whispering trees
and dark rivers run
I told a dream to you
Now outside the streets are gray
And the childhood games we played
Have faded away
CHORUS
My baby, she has restless nights
(She has restless nights)
My baby, she has restless nights
On late-night movie screens
Young lovers look so sure
Lost in wide-wake dreams
That they can't afford
Once I held you in my arms
On a bed of stone
Now we have grown
CHORUS
Once we ran and lived as one
In different world, my little one
Where whispering trees
and dark rivers run
I told a dream to you
Now I pray, darling, for the night
We'll dance down these darkened halls
Once again to fall
Into a dream
CHORUS
A Good Man is Hard to Find
It's cloudy out in Pittsburgh
It's raining in Saigon
Snow's fallin' all across the Michigan line
Well she sits by the lights of the Christmas tree
With the radio softly on. Thinkin' how
a good man is so hard to find
Well once she had a fella
Once she was somebody's girl
And she gave all she had that one last time
Now there's a little girl asleep
in the back room
she's gonna have to tell about
the meanness in this world
And how a good man is so hard to find
Well there's pictures on the table by her bed
him in his dress greens and her in her wedding white
She remembers how the world was the day he left
And now how that world is dead
And a good man is so hard to find
She got no time now for Casanovas
Yeah those days are gone
She don't want that anymore,
she's made up her mind
just somebody to hold her
As the nights get on
When a good man is so hard to find
Well she shuts off the TV
And without a word
Into bed she climbs
Well she thinks how it was all so wasted
And how expendable their dreams all were
When a good man was so hard to find
Well it's cloudy out in Pittsburgh
Roulette
We left the toys out in the yard
I took my wife and kids and left my home unguarded
We packed what we could into the car
No one here knows how it started
Suddenly everything was just so out of control
Now I want some answers, mister, I need to know
I hear all the talk but I don't know what you're sayin'
But I think I got a good idea
of the game that you're playin'
Roulette, that's the name
Roulette, that's the game now
Roulette, I don't know what they're sayin'
Roulette, everybody's playin'
I grew up here on this street
Where nothin' moves, just a strange breeze
In a town full of worthless memories
There's a shadow in my backyard
I've got a house full of things that I can't touch
Well all those things won't do me much good now
I was a fireman out at Riker's, I did my job
Mister, I've been cheated, I feel like
I've been robbed. I'm the big expendable,
my life's just canceled null and void
Well what you gonna do about your new boy
Roulette, you're playin' with my life
Roulette, with my kids and my wife
Roulette, every day the stakes get bigger
Roulette, a different finger on the trigger
Down by the river that talks
The night speaks in searchlights
And shortwave radios squawk
The police patrol the streets
But I've left behind the man I used to be
Everything he believed and all that belonged to me
I tried to find my way out to somewhere
where I thought it'd be safe
They stopped me at the roadblock
they put up on the interstate
They put me in detention but
I broke loose and then I ran
They said they want to ask me a few
questions but I think they had other plans
Now I don't know who to trust
and I don't know what I can believe
They say they want to help me
but with the stuff they keep on sayin'
I think those guys just wanna keep on playin'
Roulette, with my life
Roulette, with my kids and my wife
Roulette, the bullet's in the chamber
Roulette, who's the unlucky stranger
Roulette, surprise, you're dead
Roulette, the gun's to your head
Roulette, the bullet's spinning in the chamber
Roulette, pull the trigger, feel the click
No further danger
Dollhouse
Well ever since you were a little girl
You set the rules in your little world
But girls grow up and throw their toys away
You're a big girl now but you still wanna play
(Girl we're living)
You dress them up the way you want to
(Girl we're living)
You make them do just what you want them to
(Girl we're living)
Once I thought we had a love that was true. But
I'm just another doll in your dollhouse to you
We're living in a dollhouse
We're living in a dollhouse
Girl we're living in a dollhouse
You may feel safe and sound
But your dollhouse, girl, is falling down
It's all been neatly arranged in your mind
Every detail fits your own design
Every room is perfectly in place
But I can see the sadness, baby, on your face
You had a plan and darling like a child
You thought it's down to fashion, down to style
But your little dreamhouse is runnin' wild
Before your very eyes we're shrinking down to size
We're living in a dollhouse
We're living in a dollhouse
Girl we're living in a dollhouse
You may feel safe and sound
But your dollhouse, girl, is falling down
Everything's as you dreamed it would be
But there's something wrong that you can't see
Room by room you keep looking for some little flaw
A crack somewhere in your dollhouse wall
Something, girl, that will explain away
the hurt you feel, darling, when we play
Your little dolls they got grip on you. Until you're just another doll in your dollhouse too
We're living in a dollhouse
Girl, we're living in a dollhouse
Oh we're living in a dollhouse
We may feel safe and sound. But our
dollhouse, girl, is falling down
Oh we're living in a dollhouse
Girl, we're living in a dollhouse
Yeah we're living in a dollhouse
Where the Bands are
I hear the guitars ringin' out
Ringin' out down Union Street
I hear the lead singer shoutin' out, girl
I wanna be a slave to the beat
Yeah, tonight I wanna break my chains
Somebody break my heart
Somebody shake my brains
Downtown there's something that I wanna hear
There's a sound, little girl, keeps ringing in my ear
CHORUS
I wanna be where the bands are
I wanna be where the bands are
Where the bands are
I wanna be where the bands are
I get off from work and I grab something to eat
I turn the corner and I drive down your street
Little gray houses darling looks like nowhere
But hey I know you're hiding in there
Come on out for just a little while
You know that heart of stone, girl,
it just ain't your style
Tonight I wanna feel the beat of the crowd
And when I tell you that I love you
I wanna have to shout it out loud
Shout it out loud
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I hear the guitars ringin' out again
Ringin' on down Union Street
I hear the lead singer shoutin' out girl
I wanna be a slave to the beat
And I want something that'll break my chains
Something to break my heart
Something to shake my brains
There's a rocker's special on tonight
So meet me on down
'Neath the neon lights
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Loose Ends
We met out on open streets
when we had no place to go
I remember how my heart beat
when you said I love you so
Then little by little we choked out all the
life that our love could hold
Oh no
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It's like we had a noose and baby without check
we pulled until it grew tighter around
our necks. Each one waiting for the other,
darlin', to say when. Well baby you can
meet me tonight on the loose end
We didn't count tomorrows,
we took what we could and baby we ran
There was no time for sorrow, every place
we went I held your hand
And when the night closed in I was sure
your kisses told me all I had to know. But oh no
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Our love has fallen around us
like we said it never could
We saw it happen to all the others
but to us it never would
Well how could something so bad, darling,
come from something that was so good
I don't know
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Living on the Edge of the World
Early North Jersey industrial skyline
I'm an all-set cobra jet creepin' through
the night time. Gotta find a gas station,
gotta find a pay phone. This turnpike
sure is spooky at night when you're all alone
I'm living on the edge of the world
Tryin' to get my girl on the line
Livin' on the edge of the world
But I think it's just a waste of my time
Some jerk keeps breaking my connection, girl
'Cause I'm living on the edge of the world
Radio, radio, hear my tale of heartbreak
New Jersey in the morning like a lunar landscape
Got a counter girl at the Exit 24 HoJo
Down past the refinery towers
where the great black river flows
I'm living on the edge of the world
Tryin' to get a message through
I gotta make a connection, girl
Because I'm living on the edge of the world
Living on the edge of the world
Radio's jammed with gospel stations
Lost souls callin' long distance salvation
Hey mister deejay gotta hear my last prayer
It's a hey ho rock and roll, deliver me from nowhere
I'm living on the edge of the world
Tryin' to get back to you, girl
Living on the edge of the world
Tryin' to get a message through
I gotta make some connection, girl
Because I'm living on the edge of the world
Living on the edge of the world
Now my boss don't dig me 'cause
he put me on the night shift
It takes me two hours to get back
to where my baby lives
In the wee wee hours my mind gets hazy
Relay towers, won't you lead me
to my baby. 'Neath the overpass the trooper
hits his party lights switch
Good night, good luck, one, two powershift
Wages of Sin
When we fight and I wanna talk it out
You won't say nothing, nothing at all. You just sit there, you won't open that pretty mouth. I think you like keeping my back up against the wall
Wages of sin, you keep me paying
Wages of sin for wrongs that I've done
Wages of sin, you keep me paying
Wages of sin, one by one
I walk in the apartment,
there's clothes thrown all over the place
You're crouched in the corner with
makeup running down your face
I don't wanna believe what my heart keeps saying
You keep me on the line so you can keep me paying
Wages of sin, we keep paying
Wages of sin for the wrongs that we've done
Wages of sin, we keep paying
Wages of sin, that's how we have our fun
I remember when I was a little boy
out where the cottonwoods grow tall
Trying to make it home through the forest
before the darkness falls
Baby all the sounds I heard, even if they weren't real
I was running down that broken path
with the devil snapping at my heels
I tried so hard, so hard in every way
Swore someday I'd grow up, just throw it all away
Cried all the tears, baby, that I could cry
Stomached all my fears 'til
they came rushin' up inside
Darlin' I'm losin' and it's a mean game
Still I play on just the same
Wages of sin, I keep paying
Wages of sin for some wrong that I've done
Wages of sin, well I keep paying
Wages of sin, one by one
Take'em as they Come
Last night I dreamed we was running
through the outlands
Tears streaming, your pretty face all a wreck
(I held your daddy's gun in my
tremblin' hands)
And down the highway another stranger comes
You gotta take 'em baby when they come.
Little girl put on your best dress
'Cause we're goin' out on the town tonight
(Better bring along your switchblades)
'Cause for sure some fool's gonna wanna fight
You've got to take 'em baby as they come
CHORUS
You gotta take 'em, take 'em as they come, girl
Take 'em as they come, girl
Take 'em as they come, girl
Take 'em baby as they come
God save the rider in the black night
Save the man who taught that it was right
To do what they have done
To become what we have become
You gotta take 'em when they come
Little girl, gone are the days
Faded away into a clear blue night
And all the vows that we made
Lie shattered and broken in the morning light
You gotta take 'em when they come
CHORUS
I know your heart is breaking
I can feel it too
Though my finger on the trigger's shakin'
Here I swear to you
If I could take all your sorrow so that
you'd never cry, girl, or be blue
(Come tommorow)
That's what I'd do for you, pretty one
I swear I'll take 'em baby when they come
CHORUS
Be True
Your scrapbook's filled with pictures
of all your leading men
Well baby don't put my picture in there with them
Don't make us some little girl's dream
that can't ever come true
That only serves to hurt
and make you cry like you do
Well baby don't do it to me and I won't do it to you
You see all the romantic movies,
you dream and take the boys home
But when the action fades you're left all alone
You deserve better than this, little girl,
can't you see that you do
Do you need somebody to prove it to you?. Well you prove it to me and I'll prove it to you
Now every night you go out looking
for true love's satisfaction
But in the morning you end up settling
for just lights, camera, action
And another cameo role with some bit player
you're befriending
You're gonna go broken-hearted
looking for that happy ending
Well girl you're gonna end up
just another lonely ticket sold
Cryin' alone in the theater as the credits roll
You say I'll be like those other guys
Who filled your head with pretty lies
And dreams that can never come true
Well baby you be true to me
And I'll be true to you
Ricky want's a Man of Her own
Well look out mama, your little girl she has changed
She cut her baby curls
and she's got her act rearranged
Well look out daddy, what she needs now
she can't find at home
Oh Ricky wants a man of her
She wants a man of her
Ricky wants a man of her own
Mama says her little girl won't talk to her anymore
She just goes in her room, turns on the radio
and shuts the door
She's got her own bathroom, TV, stereo,
extension phone
Oh but Mama, Ricky wants a man of her
She wants a man of her
Ricky wants a man of her own
Well daddy says when he drops her off
friday night at the gym
She slides way down in the front seat
so the kids won't see her with him
She don't do no work, she won't tell nobody
when she's coming home
She makes poor daddy wait down
on the corner at midnight all alone
She used to like me to take her
to a ball game or a movie show
She used to make daddy take
his little girl where she wanna go
Now we're left peeking through
the curtains every time that we hear a horn blow
I guess Ricky wants a man of her own
Well my folks say "Son, talk to her,
she'll listen to you"
Yeah, she listens real nice
and she does what she wants to do
Daddy says she wears her jeans so tight,
"Well you change 'em or you're stayin' home"
Oh but daddy, Ricky wants a man of her
She wants a man of her
Ricky wants a man of her own
She's almost grown
Ricky wants a man of her
She wants a man of her
Ricky wants a man of her own
I Wanna be with You
Let the frozen cities crumble,
crumble and fall
That's alright, I don't mind at all
Let 'em all tumble right into the sea
Well that's just fine, that's alright with me
Since you came down the line I can't sleep
at night, I got one thing on my mind
That's every day, every night
I wanna be with you
I wanna be with you, that's what I wanna do
'Cause you're just so out of sight
I wanna be with you, that's what I wanna do
Now I lost my job at the Texaco station
'Cause instead of pumping gas I'd dream of you
I got thrown out of my house,
I got such a bad reputation
'Cause all I wanna do is be seen with you
They gave me my pay and said walk
I don't care what they say,
go ahead and let 'em all talk
'Til the world falls apart
I wanna be with you
I wanna be with you
That's what I wanna do
Until they will rip out my heart
I wanna be with you, I wanna be with you
Well that's all I wanna do
Hold tight, love me just a little bit
Alright, a little bit more
Tonight, tonight give me just a little kiss
No I don't know, I don't know, I don't
I just can't understand it, you're not pretty at all
But I come when you whisper, I run when you call
When I see you on the street I fall on my face
I drop to my knees, I plead my case
Oh, oh I wanna be with you
I wanna be with you, that's what I wanna do
Oh, oh I wanna be with you
I wanna be with you, that's all I wanna do
Oh, oh I wanna be with you
I wanna be with you, darlin', don't you know
Oh, oh I wanna be with you
I wanna be with you because I love you so
Mary Lou
You're scrapbook's filled with pictures
of all your leading men
Well baby don't put my picture in there with them
Don't make us some little girl's dream
that can never come true
Oh baby don't do it to me I won't do it to you
Mary Lou, I'm not like all those other guys
Mary Lou, I won't fill your pretty head
with their pretty lies.
Mary Lou, and dreams that never, never,
never ever will come true
Mary Lou, that'd only serve to hurt
and make you cry like you do
You've seen all the romantic movies,
you dream and take the boys home
But when the action fades you're left all alone
You deserve more than this,
a real love that can grow
And I ain't playin' outtakes, girl,
from some late late show, no
Mary Lou, you're not like all those others girls
Mary Lou, so afraid to shake up that real world
Every night you go out looking for
true love's satisfaction
But you allways end up setting for
just lights, camera, action
And another cameo role with some bit player
you're befriending
You're gonna go broken-hearted
looking for that happy ending
Mary Lou, I've seen all those movies too
Mary Lou, I know the hurt
too much dreaming can do
Mary Lou, you're gonna end up
just another lonely ticket sold
Mary Lou, crying alone in the theatre
as the credits roll. Let's go
Stolen Car
I met a little girl and I settled down
In a little house out on the edge of town
We got married, and swore we'd never part
Then little by little we drifted from each other's heart
At first I thought it was just restlessness
That would fade as time went by
and our love grew deep
In the end it was something more I guess
That tore us apart and made us weep
And I'm driving a stolen car
Down on Eldridge Avenue
Each night I wait to get caught
But I never do
She asked if I remembered the letters I wrote
When our love was young and bold
She said last night she read those letters
And they made her feel one hundred years old
And I'm driving a stolen car
On a pitch black night
And I'm telling myself I'm gonna be alright
But I ride by night and I travel in fear
that in this darkness I will disappear
Born in the USA
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog
that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "Son, don't you understand"
I had a brother at Khe Sahn
fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.
Johnny Bye bye
She drew out all her money from the Southern Trust
And put her little boy on a Greyhound Bus
Leaving Memphis with a guitar in his hand
On a one-way ticket to the promised land
Hey little girl with the red dress on
There's party tonight down in Memphis town
I'll be going down there if you need a ride
The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died
We drove down into Memphis,
the sky was hard and black
Up over the ridge came a white Cadillac
They'd drawn out all his money
and they laid him in the back
A woman cried from the roadside
"Ah he's gone, he's gone"
They found him slumped up against the drain
With a whole lot of trouble running through his veins
Bye-bye Johnny
Johnny bye-bye
You didn't have to die
You didn't have to die
Shut out the Light
The runway rushed up at him
as he felt the wheels touch down
He stood out on the blacktop
and took a taxi into town
He got out down on Main Street
and went into a local bar
He bought a drink and found a seat
in a corner off the dark
Well she called up her mama to make sure
the kids were out of the house
She checked herself out
in the dining room mirror
And undid an extra button on her blouse
He felt her lying next to him,
the clock said 4:00 am
He was staring at the ceiling
He couldn't move his hands
CHORUS
Oh mama mama mama come quick
I've got the shakes and I'm gonna be sick
Throw your arms around me in the cold dark night
Hey now mama don't shut out the light
Don't you shut out the light
Don't you shut out the light
Don't you shut out the light
Don't you shut out the light
Well on his porch they stretched a banner
that said "Johnny Welcome Home"
Bobby pulled his Ford out of the garage
and they polished up the chrome
His mama said "Johnny oh Johnny,
I'm so glad to have you back with me"
His pa said he was sure they'd
give him his job back down at the factory
CHORUS
Well deep in a dark forest,
a forest filled with rain
Beyond a stretch of Maryland pines
there's a river without a name
In the cold black water
Johnson Lineir stands
He stares across the lights of the city
and dreams of where he's been
CHORUS
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